Amane
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Amane has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Amane, 2016
1 in 612,000
Amane over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Amane?
Amane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Amane sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Amanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Amane was born before 2003 — so the typical Amane is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 68.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 68.0% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Amane rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (10)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.4% average annual change
Spellings of Amane
Amane is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 31.1% against Amane's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Amane around the world
Where Amane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2018#4,684in 2018
- France1980–2025#4,623in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Amane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Amane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Amane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.